Set up your Sonar Home Studio with two midi tracks. Go there, enter the artist name and song title, and you’ll get a BPM and key, also a Spotify link to the song. But, if you can live with getting real close, we can look at how to do that.įirst thing, get the key and BPM. It’s not cheap you’d be paying for time, like 25 to 30 pounds sterling per song. For the record, however, if you want note for note midi transcriptions, there are services that do that. We’re gonna get something that’s pretty good and gets us close enough to what we need to play the song. We’re not going to end up with a note for note perfect version. Let’s start with Rockin’ Daddy, and I’ll show you the process I would use. The Marco DiMaggio one is more of a modern hip-hop based track, right? Or do I have the wrong thing? For songs like that, there is a program called Riffstation that I use to get basic chord structure. Both those are very straight forward and follow basic blues progressions, for the most part. A lot of ideas to be found in even the simplest chords.Rockin’ Daddy and the Guild demo should be pretty easy to work up. I just like really exploring stuff that way. If you do your own bass parts like I do it also shows you all the possible walk lines and of course the main chord structure for the up and down beats. You can see what improv possibilities are available for soloing and what variations of the chord can be used to add some extra flavor to the backing tracks. My favorite part about the manual method is you get to really rip apart the chord and it's relation to the overall composition. Then you get to work out how to play it on your instrument of choice.

It might take a while but the effort is well worth it. There's not been many cases when i can't figure out a certain chord. Bristol_Jonesey Hi Beep No your points are well made and informative. Been having some dumb pain flareups the past couple days and it's distracting me. I was just more offering some general thoughts on the OP and how I go about it. actually I wasn't even really referencing that. Maybe you should check out Transcribe? You seem to have a completely different image of it than what it is and I think you might actually like it a lot.

Still looping a section and playing it twice a little slower is preferable to playing it six times manually at regular speed. The spectrum analysis is a bonus for me that sometimes helps.

Transcribe is just a tool that lets me hear better with its slow down and isolation EQ. I'm a by ear guy too, I think we're having a disconnect here somewhere.

Does riffstation work for bass